depressed - Story 26063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She pulled the covers over her head, shutting out the world. The sunlight, usually a welcome presence, felt accusatory, highlighting the mess of her room. She'd left the laundry pile on the floor for three days, untouched.

A leaden weight settled on her chest, making it difficult to breathe. Each inhalation felt like an effort. Her thoughts circled the same desolate ground: the missed opportunities, the lost dreams.

Her mother's insistent knocking on the door grated on her nerves. She considered ignoring it, but the guilt was too much. She forced herself to sit up, the movement leaving her lightheaded.

Emotion: depressed

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.06 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.08

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion depressed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 depressed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the depressed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the depressed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.417
`每天`	0.353
`无法`	0.330
`own`	0.311
`😔`	0.309

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.492
`B`	-0.393
`P`	-0.352
`l`	-0.310
`!`	-0.307